Pallet Controller at Phakisa Group

• Seeking for a  Pallet Controller to oversee pallet movements efficiently and accurately. Manage pallet accounts, reconcile discrepancies, liaise with stakeholders, and generate reports.
• To ensure accurate , complaint administration of pallet accounts mitigate financial risk and sustain service level as customer and transaction volumes increase.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reconciliation backlogs increase , delaying month end close
• Financial exposure grows through unresolved balances, unprocessed transactions and rejected movements
• Improve customer experience , financial control and operation compliance
• Customer escalations rise due to delay query resolution and reporting 
• Compliance and audit risks increase due to filing documentation and data intergrity gaps
• Ensure timely daily processing , weekly reporting and month reconciliation 
• Reconciling pallet account and CHEP issues movement 
• Captiring THAN's and PCN's via my CHEP and issuaing transaction via SAP
• Managing suspended and rejected movement and initiating corrective action
• Logging all activities direct with CHEP
• Logging escalations to the business where required 
• General query resolution including
• Pallet Movement Authorization
• Transfer Hire Agreements
• Loss investigations
• Logging collection and return orders when required 
• Monitoring EDI data intergrity (Where applicable)
• Supporting yard operation
• Pallet quality inspections
• Immediate reporting of non-compliance or damages 
• Mantaining accurate and compliance filing of all pallet documentation.
• Liaising with problem customers to recover outstanding balances
• Communicating extended holding periods or excessive volumes to relevant internal stakeholders
• Providing electronic system support
• Maintaining strong working relationship with customer stakeholders and operations teams
• Working closely with CHEP and logistics/operations teams
• Ensure issues are capture accurately and timeously
• Align on corrective actions and priorities
• Escalating ongoing or critical non-compliance matters to management
• Stock counts and reconciliation including offside location
• Review and closure of outstanding queries and balance investigations
• Validation of system data intergrity across SAP, myCHEP and EDI 
• Identification of long outstanding balances and aged exceptions with recovery actions documented
• Review of pallet holding pattern  and volume variances
• Ensuring all documentation is complete , filed and audit ready 
• Supporting month end reporting and compliance requirements 
• Improved financial control through timely reconciliation and reduced writes off 
• Reduces operational risk caused by unprocessed and rejected or non-compliant movements
• Stronger compliance and audit readiness
• Better report accuracy and visibility for management decision making 
• Sustainable workload distribution , reducing dependency risk and burnout

Qualifications and Skills:

• Grade 12
• Clean criminal record
• Good communication skills
• 2-3 years experience as a Pallet Controller
• Knowledge of SAP and CHEP system